Whoa, whoa, whoa, what's the London Beer Flood? Well, you could look it up on the virtual pages of the world's largest library that doesn't introduce Mary Sue River Song, Wikipedia, or you could just hang about and ask questions until the Doctor, eager to show off his vast galactic knowledge (no doubt aided by a little light reading of that most remarkable work The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Explains It All For You™:

Oh, Amy's dead. Well, turnabout is fair play for once. And hey, the Doctor is almost as interested in the Boston Molasses Flood as Evan Dorkin is! Oh wait, Amy survived! Yay! She'll never be killed off!

Say, Doctor, what else happened on October 17 in Comics History?

Not pictured but also happening on October 17 throughout Comics History that I believe the Doctor probably had a hand in:

1771: The premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Mozart, age 15